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US currency is already embarrassing and this new design for the $100 bill is not helping.
via Kottke 

We love our 3D printing here at DVICE, because printing whatever objects you want whenever you want is just awesome. We loved 3D printing when it only existed in awesome sci-fi films, like The Fifth Element. We loved it when it was only a DIY kit. And we really loved it when it went mainstream.

3D printing has become a part of everything from the national gun … Read More → "10 3D printing technologies bringing you the future of medicine"

Remember in elementary school when someone did something you didn’t like, but you couldn’t really stop them so you just pretended like it’s what you really wanted them to do all along? That’s pretty much how Google responded to the news that hackers are already rooting Google Glass. Google’s Dan Morrill fired off a post on Google+ saying that rooting was the plan all along.
via Geekosystem

< … Read More → "Google Glass gets jailbroken, Google replies by saying they totally wanted it to get jailbroken"

US researchers working on a snake-like robot have tested pairing it with a search-and-rescue dog.

The engineers sent two dogs fitted with harnesses containing the robot into a simulated collapsed building. The dogs then released the equipment, allowing the robot to wriggle free.

The researchers hope the technology will one day be used to locate people trapped in places … Read More → "Snake robot teams up with search-and-rescue dog (video)"

A brain implant could become a new tool for treating obesity in patients unresponsive to traditional medications. A new study at the University of Pennsylvania found that by treating mice using a specially tuned brain pacemaker — a device that sends electrical signals to … Read More → "Obesity could be treated with a pacemaker implanted into the brain, according to new study"

What color dinosaur skin was remains largely a mystery, as dino-hide fossilizes poorly, meaning that there are just a handful of examples of fossilized dinosaur skin in the entire world. Now, one of them — a chunk of hadrosaur skin found in a bone bed in Alberta, Canada — is getting an unheard of treatment. Researchers at CLS are looking to uncover what color the hadrosaur was in life by bombarding its remains with infrared … Read More → "Particle accelerator study could reveal dinosaur skin color"

When procuring tissue samples for medical diagnosis, doctors have been confined to bulky and invasive forceps. But with recent successful experiments in pigs, we may see doctors switching from the single forceps to hordes of a thousand “microgrippers.” These metal discs, each only 300 micrometers in size, are designed to snip bits of tissue when introduced en masse into the body and then be easily retrieved by a doctor. Their small size, added to the fact … Read More → "Swarms of tiny “microgrippers” used to perform biopsies"

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis found a single silica grain on a meteorite from Antarctica by inspecting the rock at 20,000x magnification. This tiny dot, which is essentially a grain of sand, is chemically identical to one found in a meteorite from the Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition. Scientists have found other silica grains in asteroids, but they have all been enriched in oxygen-17, which comes from healthy stars. However, both of the … Read More → "Two meteorites discovered in Antarctica may be from the same supernova"

The S&P 500 is near record highs, having finally regained all it lost in the 2008 financial crisis. It would be cause for celebration if it didn’t feel so out of touch with the “main street” reality of continued high unemployment. As a recent New York Times headline read, “recovery in the US is lifting profits, but not adding jobs.”

The NYT goes on to … Read More → "Robots will do everything you do now, only better. What then?"